THE ITALIA WHITE PAGES DIRECTORY ON DISC
Pagine Bianche on disc
All the telephones in Italy on a compact disc
Pagine Bianche On Disc® contains the addresses and telephone numbers of 23 million Italian subscribers- The CD allows rapid consultation of names and telephone numbers, on a national, provincial and local level. It is also possible to call the telephone number selected automatically (without a modem), to memorise the 200 most frequently called names and numbers in a file, and to print names from your selection.
How to start your search
The search page consist of a group of fields that are used to query the file.
The fields in the search page are:
Firm name/Surname; this field accepts both numerical and alphabetical values.
Telephone; only numerical values are accepted by this field.
Town/City; only alphabetical values are accepted.
Province; this field has a maximum length of 2 letters, and accepts only the official abbreviations of the provinces.
The search of the pre-selected terms is made by hitting the SEARCH button at the bottom of the search page.
How the pre-selected terms are searched
In all fields the letters digited are automatically turned to capitals indipendently of the use of the SHIFT or the UPPERCASE BLOCK buttons.
Furthermore, in order to adapt as much as possible the terms digited by the user to those present in the database, each term, before being searched, is standardised. Standardising consists in the following changes common to all fields:
the empty spaces at the beginning/end of the word are eliminated as well asthose repeated inside;
each accented letter is automatically substituted by the correspondingunaccented one;
Search examples (valid for all the fields but Firm name):
Word digited Word searched
SALÒ SALO
SALO’ SALO’
FINALE LIGURE "FINALE LIGURE"
For the Firm Name/Surname field - besides what already said - it must be considered that:
-Unlike what happens in the other search fields, the search is carried out separately for each digited word, and all the subscribers are found who
contain those words, but not in the same order as they were digited.
All non-alphabetical or numerical characters are considered as a separator between 2 words, except for what contained in the following point on acronyms.
- Acronyms consisting of a sequence of letters separated by points are taken as a single word by eliminating the points between letters.
Search examples in the Firm Name/Surname field:
Word digited Words searched Subscribers found
ROSSI "ROSSI" DE ROSSI
ROMANI & ROSSI
ROSSI
ROSSI BIANCHI
D’ANGELO "D" e "ANGELO" D’ANGELO
D’AURIA ANGELO & C.
ANGELO & C. "ANGELO", "C" C. TRAPPER DI TESTA ANGELO
CD S.R.L. "CD" ed "SRL" AUTO CD (SRL)
ROSSI BIANCHI
CD SYSTEMS S.R.L.
LAGANA’ S.N.C. "LAGANA" e "SNC" LAGANA’ & ROSSI S.N.C.
Validity criteria for digited search
To be accepted as valid, a search needs to meet only one condition: a word must be digited on the Firm name/Surname or on the Telephone fields.
Automatic search (in the index)
The index lists all the terms contained in the different fields providing for it and that are graphically designed by an icon on the side of the search field.
This index is characterised by :
a title, to show the type of index that was activated
a selection box
a list of terms
Search for all the telephone subscribers required
After filling in the fields with the required terms, the search for all the subscribers meeting the digited data starts. To be carried out, the search must be in accordance with some validity criteria, otherwise an error message appears.
At the end of the search:
when one or more subscribers are found, the system automatically displays the results of the search;
when no subscriber meets the selection criteria , an error message appears on the screen .
How to consult the search results
On the display a list appears containing all the subscribers selected on the basis of the words digited on the search page. For every subscriber are listed:
Firm name/surname
Name and qualification (Dott., Ing., etc.)
Telephone nos.
Address
Post code
Town/City
Province (abbreviated)
From the subscriber list it is possible
to memorise one or more subscribers (up to a maximum of 200) into your personal diary;
to activate immediately a telephone call.
The information concerning the subscribers selected can be printed by pressing the PRINT button.
It is not possible to print more than 30 names per search which are the maximum number of names for each page displayed.
How to use the Address Book
Your personal Address Book can memorise up to 200 names that can be loaded both from the list deriving from a search, or manually.
Every line shows one name and contains the following data:
Firm name/Surname
Telephone nos.
Address
Notes
It is possible to update or delete the data already inserted by clicking over the name.
How to make an automatic call
An automatic call can be activated by clicking over a telephone number. Lift the handset and place it near the speaker of your PC. Click on DIAL to make the call.
If your telephone needs a prefix to be connected with the exterior, digit it in the field.
Installing
To install, run the SETUP.EXE program - present on the CD-ROM - from the START menu of WINDOWS. This application requires a browser
MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER version 4 or 5 to be able to operate. Should a browser not be present in the machine, the installation of MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER 5 is suggested.
PC Pentium 133MHz, 16MB RAM, Windows 95,95 NT, Internet Explorer 4 or 5, 50MB RAM
Video Resolution.
For a better consultation, it is recommended to work (at least) with an 800x600-point resolution. If your video display card doesn’t support 800x600
and you are obliged to work at 640x480, it is advisable to hide the address bar, the button bar, the link bar and the browser status bar.
To hide address, button and link bars, you need to go over them and click the right mouse button. To hide the status bar, use the specific option in the view menu. | 
